{"id":4578,"date":"2014-08-27T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/denmark-streaming-soars-to-claim-63-of-market\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T06:10:05","slug":"denmark-streaming-soars-to-claim-63-of-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/denmark-streaming-soars-to-claim-63-of-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark: Streaming soars to claim 63% of market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Flag_of_Denmark.svg\/370px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"164\" \/><br \/>Digital revenues accounted for 82% of music companies&#8217; total turnover in  Denmark in the first half of 2014, as total income grew 2%. New  figures from trade body the IFPI show that 63% of recorded music  revenue in the period came from streaming, with downloads accounting for  19%. Physical sales, including both CDs and vinyl, made up just 18% of total revenues. In  total, streaming revenues stood at 117 million Danish Krone (\u00a312.49m)\u00a0  in the six months. This represented an increase of 36m Krone (\u00a33.8m)  year on-year, a leap of 44%.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Download sales fell by 33% compared to the first half of 2013, while physical sales fell by 31% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>However,  streaming alone managed to offset these losses, dragging the total  market value up from 181m Krone (\u00a319.3m) to 185m (\u00a319.7m).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, CEO of IFPI, said: &#8220;If we look two years back  was streaming just 24% of the market. At present, streaming is up to  63%. It says everything about how crucial adaptability and focus are to  the needs of consumers in our industry. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The Danes are starting to [adopt] new legal music services for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> He said shifts in the market may occur in relation to the final figures  for the full year 2014, when, among other Christmas sales are included.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital revenues accounted for 82% of music companies&#8217; total turnover in Denmark in the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}